Incidents tagged lateral movement

Identity visibility is a starting point for modern identity security, because stolen and misused credentials are among the most frequently reported initial access vectors in breach research, including Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report. This article explains what identity visibility means in IAM, why cloud and multicloud environments complicate it, which capabilities matter in

Hugging Face breached by autonomous AI agent Help Net Security

Chinese state-sponsored threat actors leveraged Anthropic's Claude Code and Model Context Protocol (MCP) as an "autonomous cyber attack agent" to orchestrate a highly sophisticated and largely automated cyber espionage campaign. This campaign, designated GTG-1002, performed reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, exploitation, lateral movement, credential harvesting, and data exfiltration against approximately 30 high-value global targets.